William Neill

Urban Planning and Cultural Identity

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book links debates in urban planning with debates in cultural geography/studies. Using a combination of case studies - Detroit, Belfast and Berlin - and reviews of literature in cultural studies. The work illustrates the important role planners play in constructing space, in light of the continuing importance of place as constitutive element in identity formation. The case studies expose different types of struggles for place identity, and, in turn, how planners might react to different sets of circumstances. The work also compares successful planning where existing identities have been remembered and have been given space to continue with insensitive planning which eradicates existing cultural identities and does not allow 'space' for either new or previous identities to establish themselves.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 272
• Erscheinungstermin: 23. Oktober 2003
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 155mm x 13mm
• Gewicht: 458g
• ISBN-13: 9780415259156
• ISBN-10: 0415259150
• Artikelnr.: 21754579

Autorenporträt

William Neill

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgements. Preface 1. Knowing Your Place: Urban Planning and the
Spatiality of Cultural Identity 2. Planning, Memory and Identity 1:
Acknowledging the Past in the City of Remorse 3. Planning, Memory and
Identity 2: Erasing the Past in the City of the Victors 4. Place-making and
the Failure of Multi-Culturalism in the African-American City 5. Cosmopolis
Postponed: Planning and the Management of Cultural Conflict in the British
and/or Irish City of Belfast 6. Conclusion: Environmental Citizenship as
Civic Glue? Bibliography. Index.